Ferguson Grand Jury Decision Could Happen Today

Tensions in Ferguson, Mo., and the surrounding region remain high in anticipation of a verdict from the grand jury in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Photo: AP

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... before the break bread on our holiday feast much of the attention this week will be on Ferguson Missouri ... over the weekend protests continued their ... with police and demonstrators bracing for Granger decision ... the case of a racially charged we shouldn't ... has captivated the country ... join us for says Jeff Cranford chief of staff to St Louis may arise Francis light thank you so much for joining us to ... good morning ... more so as it sat for a potential decision this week ... how are you preparing there on the ground ... for preparing a lot of ways we are using that China has been a lot of time or using the time to have ... discussions between police and demonstrators and in protest leaders ... elected officials in protest leaders really to open up lines of communication ... and established protocols and ... we had a sort of a test case last time it to earn fifty people in a neighborhood in my city in the city of St Louis ... in the March in the streets they were disruptive they get stuck in traffic but nobody got hurt no property damage and I think overall one off very well ... so we're really trying to really prepare ... up all to protect the constitutional rights of protesters up but also to prevent violence and that includes ... at the epicenter of the protests but also includes Bakken or neighborhoods where we will have up of police officers posted a keeping out I keep an eye out for people to use this ... as an excuse to criminal behavior ... as in Hickox's and we saw the view from New York of Ferguson ... and sinuous we saw ... oftentimes placing riot gear recent Shields ... this time over the weekend these were plainclothes officers ... there anymore communications and conversations is that sort of did this or give everyone the same page may be a more positive direction ... it is I mean I think that we know it may be that the first time around when this happened in Ferguson that that that the suburban police were caught by surprise a little bit ... I think they've been very thoughtful since then ... but there are nineteen rules of engagement there were a source of has had numerous meetings and discussion between police officers in protest leaders ... on Saturday night in Ferguson of the police officers were their normal uniforms ... last night in the city of St Louis our police officers were their normal uniforms ... and you know we are ... certainly tonight in the city ... but it is not our intention for the police to escalate anything of course we have to make shore ... that they're in a position where our police officers are safe also ... the we also don't wanna be aggressive we don't have to be ... is that our job and a lot of people may not like the speech that they're tearing out of the protesters it is not our job to regulate speech it is our job to keep everybody safe that does include police officers that does include demonstrators in a dozen people who are nowhere near the demonstrations and then obviously with this does is come down sometime next week or so ... and you will have some time how long Beach with the decision being reached in and that decision being we we we stopped the public ... well ... you remember that serve the Granger is being out and say was counting on an insidious analysts late do not have a direct pipeline into the same was county prosecutor's office ... but we are operating under assumption that you'll have several hours aam but not several banks ... this thing and what are you expecting that the that that that message for the next couple days is more dialogue is a more conversations or their actual Lomb moves you can make is we get into the twenty fifth hour ... when we get notification again I expect to be on short notice you know we've been planning this for many many weeks will put everybody in place and again ... that includes of putting people in place and are neighborhoods that are nowhere near where we expect protests ... ALM so you know where were ready to go I I think we're expecting something to happen in the short run ... up were up preparing as if it's going to happen today that doesn't happen today will prepare ... as it happens tomorrow I do not think that is going to become a long-term thing I think we will see ... up were expecting that's what I would say we're expecting something out of the grand jury in the short run ... and what about the decision could be indictments it was either way this decision comes through their expecting it to the eye immediately better as was we know the decision ... well I brought with it we can be immediately but at least we will know what's going to happen was so there are people who are very un happy not just about ... what happened in Ferguson but people who want to bring grievances to the government to their government including our government in the city even though ... and we have nothing to do with what happened in Ferguson there people who who rightly want to bring their grievances to their government about underlying issues of racial economic disparities ... of policing some governance issues ... you know people getting traffic tickets and and and when they missed a court date having huge huge science ... and an arrest warrant awards for their arrest so there there are a lot of underlying issues ago weigh in on what happened between officer Karen Wilson and Michael Brown ... so one way or the other whatever the grand jury does we do expect people are going to express